Crop rotation for annual vegetables can reduce disease and pest pressure, improve soil health and boost overall crop ...

Crop rotation is a planned sequence of different crop types ... Making rotations shorter (not including perennials, pastures, green manures and increased summerfallow) has reduced soil organic matter, ...

These crops, in rotation, may suppress weeds in subsequent crops ... When the cover crop fixes nitrogen or otherwise improves soil properties, it is often referred to as a green manure. Both cover ...

Green manures are ideal whenever a patch of land is going to be free of crops for six weeks or more, and they are particularly useful to vegetable gardeners and allotment holders. Although many ...

Manures, organic residuals (e.g., biosolids ... to guide maintenance and sustainability of agricultural crop production. We begin our discussion of the N cycle in a typical grain crop rotation (corn, ...

Such soil fertility management practices include the use of fertilizers, organic inputs, crop rotation with legumes and the use ... Whether grown as pulses for grain, as green manure, as pastures or ...

application of manure and biochar); nitrogen fixation by leguminous crops; reduced pesticide use; crop rotation; and mixed crop-livestock production. In addition, optimised animal feeding practices ...